From the course: Parallel and Concurrent Programming with Java 2
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Producer–consumer - Java Tutorial
From the course: Parallel and Concurrent Programming with Java 2
Producer–consumer
- A common design pattern in concurrent programming is the producer-consumer architecture where one or more threads or processes act as a producer which adds elements to some shared data structure and one or more other threads act as a consumer which removes items from that structure and does something with them. To demonstrate that, I'll be the producer serving up bowls of soup. - I guess that makes me the consumer who eats the soup. I like this demonstration. - After I fill a bowl, I'll add it to this line of bowls that represents a queue. Queues operate on a principle called a First-In-First-Out or FIFO which means items are removed in the same order that they're put into the queue. The first item that was added will be the first item to be removed. - So when I'm ready to consume another bowl of soup, I'll grab one from this end of the line because it's been in the queue the longest. These bowls of soup represent elements of data for the consumer thread to process or perhaps…
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